The White House also has acknowledged that Kushner met with Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., in late November. That would surely include Trump's firing of Comey. No". Spicer didn't dispute the Times' report, but did in his statement continue to emphasize wildly that the "real story" is "that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations".

The new case suggests that Ebola is back in the Democratic Republic of Congo-raising the specter not just of the 2014 outbreak that sickened 66 and killed 49, but the much larger (unrelated) outbreak that swept through West Africa between 2014 and 2016.

Mr MacGibbon declined to comment on the identity or type of the business impacted by the unprecedented cyber attack but said it was a small company, which did not provide critical infrastructure. Victims of the attack range in size-from Fortune 500 to small/medium-sized businesses-and industry-from academic institutions to large banks, health care providers, and transportation networks.

NHS England said that, as of 3pm on Monday, two hospitals remained on divert following the attack, down from seven on Sunday. British health minister Jeremy Hunt said yesterday that it was "encouraging" that a predicted second spike of cyber attacks had not yet occurred, but the ransomware attack was a warning.

While 52 percent of English people voted in favor of Brexit in last June's European Union referendum, Scots opted against it by 62 percent. The First Minister said joining the European Free Trade Association in a Norway-style setup may end up a "necessity" because of a Brussels block.

The shadow foreign secretary said the United Kingdom needed to keep updating its defence policy and make sure any war would be "fought on 21st century terms". But appearing on Newsnight, Ms Griffith criticised her comments and insisted the party is "fully committed" to supporting the nuclear deterrent. As a nuclear-armed power, our country has a responsibility to fulfil our obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

Yet Donald Trump would have us believe that Mexicans have made out like bandits from NAFTA, robbing middle-class jobs from the United States . "At the end of the day our objective is going to be to negotiate a great deal for Canadians", she said, declining to give any details of Ottawa's negotiating position.

In Iran, where political speech is severely curtailed, newspapers and even social media channels are government regulated and protest comes with great personal risk, the quadrennial presidential election is an opportunity to blow off emotional steam, to act politically in the most public, and loud, of ways.

It comes following a week of increasing controversy for President Trump following his firing of former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey. Rosenstein said that though he was personally fond of Comey, "I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader". "Regardless of the recommendation, I was going to fire Comey".

According to the Japanese government's data, North Korea fired the ballistic missile from the area north-west of the town of Kusong. "North Korea's latest successful missile test represents a level of performance never before seen from a North Korean missile", Schilling wrote.

But Rosenstein's unwillingness to answer substantive questions frustrated some senators. Sen. Yahoo's Michael Isikoff reported on Thursday that Flynn revealed the message from Trump to a small group of supporters at a restaurant in northern Virginia on April 25.